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The paradox of blackness in African American vampire fiction / Jerry Rafiki Jenkins.
Van Pelt Library PS374.V35 J46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Rafiki, 1967- author.
- Series:
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- Vampires in literature.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- Racism in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 201 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The vampire's blackness
- Blackness, freedom, and the staying-alive vampire in The Gilda stories
- Antizealot atheism and the all-American bourgeois Negro in My soul to keep
- African American manhood and the masculine Africa narrative in Dark corner
- Human blackness, transhuman blackness, and the black body in Fledgling
- Black Church corporatism and the black gay vampire in Image of emeralds and chocolate
- Conclusion: Post-black, new black, and the immortality of blackness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814214015
- 0814214010
- OCLC:
- 1090279231
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